I have had a number of python projects, my happiest one was one that scraped government websites for jobs and then applied for those with semi fitting criteria. I was unemployed at the time with unemployment insurance but my insurers wanted proof that I'd been looking. 24 hours hacking and 1 cron job later , I had a script that scraped a government website for jobs, applied for jobs via email , saved applied for jobs in a Django database (so I couldnt apply twice) and sent a monthly report to my insurer. Bingo, paid holiday for a year. Created a couple of Django simple Django websites. Built a python robot for Google wave, that did the background research for finding references (http://vimeo.com/5772930) for the document you are collaboratively typing , only that my robot did legal research screen scraper robot to spam gumtree with my girlfriends flat that she was trying to advertise, turned out to be 8 times as good as the estate agents she was paying
currently playing a bit with NLTK, Twisted and using mechanize to scrape facebook for nefarious reasons, im getting into functional programming recently have the ephinany that if I want to write a functional screen scraper I must view the mechanize.Browser as data! future plans are to use twisted and/or google app engine to massively parallelize my scraper Also got involved with planning the python dojos , but so far have been a no show to every single one *cringe* Greg
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